I think certifications are a bit extreme anyway.
The thing is, Security forum has very few people that put in the effort to help just about everyone. The problems there, at least in my opinion, are ones that a lot of members don't want to try and tackle. There may even be (at least I feel this way a bit) some feeling that the people that got themselves into these situations failed to take any methods to lessen or prevent their chances of getting "infected" and because of that we are less enticed to help. This is probably the wrong way to approach things I admit, but I'm pretty sure that is why you see people that help other difficult issues not trying to help at all in Security.
The problems arise when people, good natured people, trying to help and they take a stab at a problem someone is having in Security. This throws a kink into the way the people that do help in there do things. There may be 15 steps that someone like Kimsland asks you to go through when maybe only 3 were necessary, but the difficulty is knowing which 3 to do, and maybe those 3 are different for every situation.
So while I'm generally opposed to any formulaic approach, or checklist style attack of an issue I think it works in that forum.
But as far as certification requirements for people, I'm completely against that. Maybe we need a sticky in Security (lol, like stickies ever get read) explaining that perhaps that energy and desire is better directed solving problems in other forums.
I guess I didn't really come up with anything solid on why certifications are bad other than I just have a feeling its no good, it creates another class of users on TS that I don't think needs to be created.